ask-umbra
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I was attacked by a driver. Do cars make us angrier?
Nothing in life is free, including the right to an open road.
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How do I get my husband to care about the climate?
About climate change, or the environment, or any of those life-or-death abstract things.
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Can I have my climate-friendly seafood and eat it, too?
It's complicated, but we figured out some ground rules.
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Can I just work on the Paris Agreement myself?
No one wants to hear “actually, you can’t do it by yourself.” But that's how it is sometimes.
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Why is bus ridership falling almost everywhere except Pittsburgh?
We headed to the Paris of Appalachia to investigate this transit mystery -- the best kind of mystery.
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What is a ‘climate refugee’ and how many are there?
Putting numbers to the problem doesn’t capture the nuances of how a changing climate changes people's lives.
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Why are we making kids into climate celebrities?
The rich and famous have let us down, and now we're pinning our expectations on children.
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Can we shrink our carbon footprints by working less?
Well, this is about capitalism, so of course it's more complicated than that.
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Should climate change be my new career calling?
To paraphrase Naomi Klein, everything has to change. So where does that leave people like you?
